Creativity and Travel - by Guestblogger Anisa Telwar

One thing I love about London is the chance connections you can make with fascinating and dynamic people living in or passing through this huge metropolis. Anisa Telwar is an Atlanta-based entrepreneur with a global business specialising in cosmetic brushes, providing innovative product design and sourcing from Asia. Beginning as a manufacturer’s representative and then in 2003 capitalizing on her brush design expertise, this she opened her own brush factory in northern China, Anisa Cosmetic Applicators (Tianjin) to offer a fully integrated operation for her international business. I met Anisa at a friend’s birthday party and I loved her dynamic energy and lively sense of fun - and, given her cross-cultural background, I had to invite her to write for Fusion View, of course!

Anisa writes:

“Where are you from?” has probably been the most frequently asked question for me from the time I can remember.

I was raised in Nashville TN. My father was from Afghanistan and my mother’s decent is Russian yet she was raised in Turkey. So we were a mixed lot when it came to noting our nationality. When I was growing up in Nashville, no-one had a clue to what I was - usually they guessed by whatever country was in the news that week. When I was younger it was more of the Middle Eastern fare yet now I get Spanish, Italian, Greek, Asian.

I have so many people come up to me in airports asking me for help in their native tongue and all I can say is ‘no Espanola’.

No one really knows what I am from my features or skin tone or accent. It used to be a big cause of contention for me and yet now I love it.
I am a Global citizen. I feel I literally belong anywhere now.

Yet, I was born in New York, raised in the south and now reside in Atlanta GA. This is where my office is, my home, my dogs, my friends.

And yet now my boyfriend lives in London.

(Fun Fact: I made my first International trip to Turkey when I was 17. I am a million miler under Delta airlines and I am only 42. 1% of this airline’s clientele travels this much. And I feel I still have so more many places to still go)

When I met Yang–May, I felt comfortable with her immediately. Her energy was also of someone who understands diversity and multicultural aspects and it was not weird to her that I was American at a British birthday party for someone I did not know, with my British boyfriend.

I told her about my business in USA that I am growing more intentionally in Europe ( mainly due to the boyfriend status : ) ) Also, I told her about my ties to Asia. I built my own factory in 2003 and have been traveling since 93’ to Korea, China, Hong Kong. And that I was about to embark to my first adventure in Malaysia this year.

It is so normal to me to be going somewhere or to be in a place that is considered foreign. It is the way I have learned to grow and challenge myself and expand my life and mind.

I feel I am constantly creating by this use of travel.

Creating and being creative to me is all about the energy in my world. I have been very creative when it has come to creating money and abundance in my life. Travel to me is new energy and that energy is the same as that creates a painting, music or a meal. Travel assists me in creating new pathways in my mind. It opens it all up to see things newly and openly and to be flexible. This flexibility I feel is what has created my happiness. I am able to be adaptable and willing to bend more than if I stayed put.

The results that are created assist with a vision, imagination and desire. I have used my business to work on myself by trusting and growing those around me so that I can have this life I currently lead and to find out what is next for me.

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Website: www.anisa.com